Karakeep vs SilverBullet

Both are self-hosted pastebins projects. This page compares how well each one is actually maintained — the part you cannot see from a feature list.

Karakeep and SilverBullet are closely matched on maintenance health (82 vs 80). Neither is the safer bet on activity alone, so choose on features, licence and the stack you already run.
KarakeepSilverBullet
Health score 82/100 80/100
Commits (11 mo) 816 1168
Commits (last 3 mo) 172 278
Stars 29k 6.2k
Latest release 11 Aug 2026 22 Sept 2026
Licence AGPL-3.0 MIT
Built with Docker Docker, Deno
Typical RAM 2 GB 1 GB

Karakeep

Bookmark-everything app with a touch of AI for the data hoarders out there.

82/100
Thriving

High commit volume, frequent releases and growing activity.

Maintenance 30/40
Releases 25/25
Community 18/20
Momentum 8/15

Commit activity more than 76% of tracked projects; popularity more than 92%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 30 commits 2025-11: 103 commits 2025-12: 100 commits 2026-01: 53 commits 2026-02: 126 commits 2026-03: 68 commits 2026-04: 89 commits 2026-05: 75 commits 2026-06: 13 commits 2026-07: 64 commits 2026-08: 95 commits

SilverBullet

Note-taking application optimized for people with a hacker mindset.

80/100
Healthy

Actively maintained with regular releases.

Maintenance 33/40
Releases 25/25
Community 14/20
Momentum 8/15

Commit activity more than 82% of tracked projects; popularity more than 71%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 86 commits 2025-11: 90 commits 2025-12: 23 commits 2026-01: 125 commits 2026-02: 109 commits 2026-03: 196 commits 2026-04: 119 commits 2026-05: 142 commits 2026-06: 60 commits 2026-07: 61 commits 2026-08: 157 commits

How to read this

Everything above is measured, not opinion: commit counts and release dates come from the public repositories, and the health score ranks each project against all 1352 projects we track. Read the full method.

What this comparison deliberately does not do is tell you which has the better feature set. Maintenance health tells you which project will still be receiving security fixes in two years. Decide that first, then compare features on the projects that survive the filter.

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